Never got a card key for my room. Stood around in the lobby trying to check in while the front desk staff and assistant manager were on the phone with various IT vendors trying to fix the internet. Apparently the computer had been smashed by an unruly patron the previous night, so everything was out of whack. They let me in my room and promised to deliver a key, but never did.
The room was clean and the bed was comfortable. The neighborhood and gaggles of homeless people out front smoking God knows what was unsettling, but my car wasn't broken into over night, so that's a plus.
Proximity to Walmart and other shopping was convenient to facilitate cooking in the room.
Skimped on the toiletries and other in room items, probably for loss control - but at over $100 a night, you'd expect a bit less thrift. 95% of the patrons here seemed like migrant homeless people though, and not business travelers, which I found very odd and disconcerting.
This is a newer property, but seems mismanaged given that it was after 5pm when I tried to check in, and they knew about the computer issue all day prior to that, and were just then trying to fix it? Made no sense in that respect. You'd think you'd want to resolve that problem before the afternoon / evening check in rush.
Not a horrible experience, but unnerving in several ways. Will continue looking for what I've come to expect in decades of travel - and thus far - nothing in Vancouver meets those expectations.
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